Here were the California Baptist Lancers — the new kids on the block in Division I basketball — playing their first actual game in the classification against another DI opponent, at Oral Roberts. They’re down 69-67 after an Oral Roberts 3-pointer with five seconds left, and Milan Acquaah — one of the transfers who arrived to help with the move — was racing down the court. “Our mindset is always fearless,” he would say later. “I just wanted to get a shot up as quickly as possible, no matter where it was from. I felt like I had a chance to make it.”

Bounce . . . bounce . . . bounce . . . let fly at midcourt. Nothing but net. A 70-69 victory. And wait till you hear what words are printed on the baseline under that very basket.